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TIL about Beevive, a keychain that contains sugar water that can help revive exhausted Bees!

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j6jyR TIL that when a woodpecker hammers away, their tongue retreats into its skull wrapping itself around the brain protecting it from the shocks
a8JmM TIL Andrew Carnegie became one of the richest Americans in history before donating most of his wealth to charity. However, at his childhood job in the mid-1800s, he earned only $1.20 for 72 working hours. In 2023 dollars, Carnegie earned around $46 per week or 63 cents/hour.
W7X7N TIL: Up until the 1980’s, people smoked cigarettes for Asthma Relief.
NXPbJ TIL In order to prepare for his work "The Raft of the Medusa" T.Géricault obsessively studied dead bodies in order to depict them accurately. He observed dying patients at a hospital and brought severed limbs into his art studio, including a severed head he spend two weeks observing
01XL TIL hedgehogs do not technically have quills and are NOT related to porcupines, rather Shrews.